“Like most artists I am inspired by work I admire. There are certain similarities between some of my work and the work of others. This was simply meant as an homage to artists I respect, and I definitely want to apologize to any Manga fans or fellow Manga artists who feel I went too far.

My inspirations reflect the fact that certain fundamental imagery is common to all Manga. This is the nature of the medium.

I am a big fan of Bleach, as well as other Manga titles. And I am certainly sorry if anyone was offended or upset by what they perceive to be the similarity between my work and the work of artists that I admire and who inspire me.”

Interestingly, he remarks on his DeviantArt profile that “If you steal my artwork, you will pay. In cash.”

Words which may yet come back to haunt him, though thankfully he has a millionaire father to fall back on for legal expenses or compensation, more than can be said for most of the works he inspiredly traced.

We are taking this matter seriously and making efforts now to contact the publishers of the works in question in an effort to resolve this matter.

We have halted further production and distribution of the “Incarnate” comic book and trade paperback until the matter is resolved to the satisfaction of all parties.

Rest assured that Radical is taking swift action regarding this matter and will continue in its efforts to maintain the integrity and protect the intellectual property of artists throughout the world whose creative works are the bedrock of our Company and the comic book industry.”

All Bleach author Tite Kubo has been drawn into saying so far is that he is “more interested in the fact that Gene Simmons’ son is writing comics than all this.”

One such scene would be an homage. Multiple scenes makes it tracing by a talentless hack. Why the fuck do children of celebrities try to act like they have the level of talent of their parents in any chosen field that interests them?

The worst part is that he can afford to hire a real artist to try to publish his story legitimately. He's got something he wants to make into a comic and his father has enough money that simply hiring an artist full time to draw his son's comic is easily done if he looks under the couch.

He calls it a homeage. The dude just flipped it over. If in bleach they were on the right side of the page, he put them on the left. And he changed his "Orihime"'s bang to the other side of her head. He's grimy, and got caught being grimy so he tried to lie. And then did it badly....

what pisses me off is this guy coul dhave used he money he paid to publish his chicken scratch/tracing to fly out to japan and get instructions from the pros( like most of us who draw our own shit would give our left nut for btw) great parenting gene! now we have to go detroit rock city on your kid and el directo is asshole with our love guns..thats a fuckin homage

sheesh, i thought the hand thing was the only thing.but this is lame. its one thing to have a similar style or use a popular pose like the thumbs upor whatever. but if its all like this then its depressing, he needs to go become a history strongest disiple fan, as HARD work always surpasses talent.

He wished he could trace as good as this...ive seen his deviant art works and it looks worse than a 8 year olds drawing... he mostly likely asked daddy to pay ppl to help him redraw his favourite mangas

Saw this a bit ago. Hadn't heard his response, though. Fucking despicable, and the pictures in even this very article don't show the mind-blowing amount of tracing this asshole's done. Calling all of it a homage when he plainly thieved another's work is fucking shitty. And this guy was at Comic-Con, praising his new work.